Word: spigots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This gave Pine & Thomas, who call themselves the "Dollar Bills," what few other class-B moviemakers have: a big bank roll and a spigot for their potboilers in Paramount's 11,000 outlets. Result: By last week the Dollar Bills were 1) producing pictures at an average cost of $125,000; grossing an average $600,000 on each, 2) top class-B producers in Hollywood, 3) among the highest paid moviemakers in the business. This year they will collect about $700,000 (before taxes) for their work...
Hard-drinking U.S. synthetic rubber and smokeless powder plants, which in 1944 downed about 90% of the domestic sugar, grain and molasses alcohol supply, have been searching feverishly for more & more industrial alcohol spigots. Almost equally fervent has been the Pacific Northwest's hunt for new industries with postwar prom ise. Last week, in one happy stroke, the Government got its spigot and the North west its new industry...
...that MacArthur struck, and three months to the day after Saipan, Admiral Nimitz' marines attacked, 500 miles due east of Mindanao. Their target: the Palau Archipelago (five principal islands, 100 smaller ones). Palau was the brightest star (and capital) of Japan's vast mandated empire. "The spigot of our oil barrel," the Japs called it, when their ships left port to tap the great oil reserves of the stolen Indies...
...with such substitutes as tequila, vodka, rum and Cuban gins hastily cut prices to clear the way for American whiskey and gin. In Manhattan, prices dropped 50? a bottle. On the West Coast, the drop was as great as 30%. The industry gossiped that distillers would open the whiskey spigot wider immediately, letting out as much as 15% more of their precious stocks...
From the islands of Palau the Japanese had launched their first air attacks on the Philippines. From Palau they had staged their advance into New Guinea. It was Palau that they called the "spigot" of their oil supply-i.e., The Netherlands East Indies. And Palau was one of Japan's finest naval bases...